The operas of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are an institution. Hesketh Pearson’s biography is of the two men who together formed a famous partnership and he is interested in them as individual, quite different personalities – one of the explanations behind their equally famous quarrel. Pearson describes their lives rather than criticise their works. As the operas such as ‘The Mikado’ and ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ live on the stage, here their authors come to life in a biography.
SIR GEORG SOLTI was without doubt one of the most distinguished and influential musical figures of our times. Dynamic, outspoken and brilliant, he worked with some of the great musicians of the cen...
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